On June 20, 2010 a conference organized by Agro JetFinance held in Geneva. Associations have denounced the support of the Canton of Geneva. Another conference - this time organized by Global AGInvesting Europe took place November 9, 2010. A wide coordination was set up to protest against the event, criticizing the practices of agricultural land grabbing, and disseminate information on the phenomenon of hoarding and the globalization of agribusiness destructive.For the second consecutive year, the Agri JetFinance conference will be held at the Grand Hotel Kempinski Geneva, Tuesday, June 7, 2011, with the same objective: to promote agricultural investment strategies! In other words: how to plunder the lands of farmers in Africa, Asia or Latin America.

We claim:1. What stops the hoarding of land and water, land reforms that provide access to land as many should be promoted.2. Speculation on agricultural commodities should be deleted and we are in favor of effective regulation and service people, not corporations.3. That pension funds to withdraw from this type of investment to move towards ethical funds.4. That the Geneva authorities withdrew their direct or indirect support to such meetings between hoarders.5. Priority to food: energy production (biofuel) must be a subsidiary objective and subject to criteria of social and environmental sustainability.6. Priority to family farming and sustainable only able to meet the food challenge and recognize food sovereignty as the law defines a new framework for agri-food markets.7. The recognition of aboriginal rights of communities and small farmers to the land they work even if they have no title

What is the land grab?Land is fundamental to the livelihoods, food security and identity of millions of people in developing countries depend directly I'agriculture. However, in recent years, there has been a phenomenon of land grabbing: Some States and private investors buy or lease tens of millions of hectares of farmland in Asia, Africa and Latin America to produce food or biofuels for purchasing countries.Examples:In Sudan, wheat is cultivated on 1.5 million hectares for the Sudanese people, not I, but Saudi Arabia. We also grow sorghum, a staple food in Sudan, however, serves to feed the camels in UAE.Ethiopia has already closed three million hectares of land to be leased to foreign investors which represents an area equivalent to Belgium. In this African country, 13 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition and rely on food aid.The World Bank estimates that agricultural land traded, rented or sold since 2006 in Africa, Asia and Latin America amounted to some 50 million hectares. This corresponds to half of all arable land in China or to the combined area of ​​existing arable land in France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.

Who are the actors of land grabs?Governments: after soaring food prices in 2008, governments of countries dependent on imports started to consider growing food abroad as a new strategy to ensure food security for their country. Japan, China, lndia or I'Arabie Arabia, among others, have recognized I'impossibilité cover their growing needs for food or forage on the international market.Hedge funds: in financial crisis and mortgage land use has attracted hedge funds and banks in search of new opportunities for safe investments with good return potential.Manufacturers of agricultural machinery as well as many chemical and seed companies also expect higher revenues thanks to the industrial culture on huge areas of farmland.The biofuels industry in Europe has already acquired, or sought, almost 4 million hectares of land in Africa. Given the virtual absence of land records in Africa and given that the land belongs to the state, contracts are made behind the scenes between the actors of these monopolies and governments more or less corrupt. In some cases, expelled farmers from their ancestral lands as happened in Kenya.

ConsequencesThe phenomenon of land grabbing only exacerbates the problem of hunger. It creates or promotes productive structures unsuitable for food crops, and weakens I'agriculture family. In addition, land appropriated offer few employment opportunities for local people because the farms are highly mechanized and sometimes cultivated by foreign labor. These crops are also a threat to the environment through the intensive use of pesticides and often genetically modified seeds and excessive use of water. Women are the first victims because they produce most of all staple foods in the world while most of them do not have titles.By using I'accaparement lands, states and investors threatens the human rights of affected populations, including the right to food and water, and food sovereignty.In Switzerland, they are mostly banks and funds involved in these projects land grab. Thus, Credit Suisse and UBS were involved in 2009 with the issuance of shares on behalf of Golden Agri-Resources, the largest producer of palm oil in the world listed. Switzerland is also home to a large number of funds that focus their investments on agriculture and partly on land purchases. Sarasin and Pictet, two large private banks offer funds focusing on agriculture. Several Swiss funds, conventional or speculative investing in agriculture, including such Global Agricap Zurich, GAIA World Agri Fund in Geneva. Addax Bionergy, based in Geneva, leases 15,000 acres in Sierra Leone where over half the population suffers from malnutrition.

For more information, http://www.uniterre.ch/Actualites/campagnes.htmlViacampesina position: http://viacampesina.org/fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=23&Itemid=36coalition against land grabbing: Uniterre, FIAN, the other union, Unia, SiT, IUF, CADTM CETIM Coordination Climate and Social Justice, COTMEC, a platform for socially sustainable agriculture, solidarity, StopOGM, United Black Sheep ATTAC Switzerland, Assoc. April 25, cooperative Longo Mai, Greenpeace GE-Solidarity Jardins de Cocagne North and South ...

China faces a complex paradigm as country.A way to grow without damaging eset scheme seems less urgent environmental damage China has several limitations in this population .And in oppossite proportionately low energy reserves the main energy source is coal dated and highly contaminant.by worse Chinese coal is high sulfur content which must be mixed with imported one.Paradojalmente economic and industrial revolution in China in the XXI century is the samesource used by the first industrial revolution in the Western world , England in late 1790.La second source is the water of rivers and as China overtakes U.S. in hidrolectrical consumption.

But the problem in China is that everything moves in a complex web of state enterprises as an engine of growth.So these that produce coal and also the demandants.this creates a problem because the coal to have a demand can not only but rises outside also inside ad dificult to manage .Los producers should raise their prices.Pero then if you climb up coal electricity and thus alter all the chain.Pero does not board the carbon many companies both producers and consumers could go to nankrupcy.peroby definition states companies dont break.Esot state does not break by questioning whether and in this stage should be extended to the sector as industrial mega private?.Pero the other side of the matter is the social impact of rising prices if the market culd work.All growth is based on demand of goods including foods that should be more expensive according to its international price and high demand.

There are solutions, not final or decrease the level of growth.In fact China does and imported 16% less copper in recent months and also lso in other first goods.El principal Chinese concern is a rising or fear of difficulty to keep inflation close to 5 %.

But the economy fueled a consumption boom that includes up to electrical energy using this price includes air conditionsted.So air demands are yet a necesity. Restrictions are planned for the consumption this fall .Incluso energia.De stop generating plants Indeed in many provinces have begano.But all madep products as something that has made the Chinese Exports more expensive.

China could theoretically produce nuclear energy or green but these take time and are more caras.Por that the king for a while or will be the carbon.Aqui segfuir comes the big problem because Chinese consumption levels dec trandforma this is a problem ambiental.Ya global average China is by far the country that makes more emissions and fr only explanation because there is no global pressure obdece to China's economy is closely tied to American and basically mundial.Pero the economy americana.Una grow with low costs is functional to a sustained low inflation in the U.S..

But the Chinese are not only affected by the blackout electrico.Para lower consumption and fewer raw materials brings with it the cfrecimiento seafecta other countries that depend on these to grow.And so things have been extended and rationing forced many small businesses to work at night to take advantage of the days that have these.At this point the dilemma seems to be the extent to which not grow without causing social upheavals of industries theoretically stops or broken and without affecting the revolution of expectations among the rural masses and urban working in industries and fields that have been princiopal destination for industrial goods and that historical experience is that no society accepts consume less bien.El once obtained a further test of bad prognosis is that in a joint in this kind would be very difficult for China's leaders appeal to the utopia of socialism teimpo of Mao.Los the times have changed and also the mentality china.Esta and is more individualistic and competitiva.No would accept reforms and measures to limit their standard of living and personal enjoyment of goods to a country level for desarrollado.Tambien State would be a failure and a setback they can not be given or maintain.Then the diagnosis is complex and somewhat gris.El dragon should eat less, but with the danger of getting sick and dying from lack of theoretically energia.Pero's not going to happen that has nothing to consumir.Entonces speak of a social covenant not seems to have plenty of space in a society very sensitive about their civil liberties and well organized by the absence of other parties that the officer and could be partners for trading.

But the problem is the depth of the overlap of the Chinese economy with the world economy.From the crisis of 2008 has bet that there will be a global meltdown as Chinese engine grows to 14%. That the excess liquid from the industrial boom and China together will be going to the U.S. dollar or U.S. Europa.Pero a hat and appears recovering and chronically ill and economically with Europe infected with a rare disease of States impossible to maintain a status of their societies with no alternatives policies to offer, unless they could pose a new economic system without dragging most of the countries to a bankruptcy that already seems to have begun in those days.

So China is not out so easy task.Paradojalmente output pressure could come from the side of popular discontent are the poor in the Arab countries that also have an upset by lack of assets more basicos.Ahora the point is Overseas countries if both rich and China would be willing to accept their demandas.Eso most serious human and unfortunately dente.Pero these factors do not govern the economies of the world, not policies

Bolivia's government has just passed a constitutional law in which the Earth as a legal entity and has equal rights to natural persons not to be raped in her ability to maintain his cover, might not be contaminated or altered water courses to maintain its flora and fauna free to toxic products not falling much for labor in the form of pesticides as defects in the modification of the atmosphere in the form of rise of temperature levels and CO2.This not the case at present, but not because of Boliviansbut certain from outside sourcesa.The factories that emit in Sao Paulo, Detroit or Beijing result bolivia.com reach climate change has produced a temperature rise of nearly 4 degrees C to 50 º años.parece little but 2 degrees can be in 30 years would make it an desert.In 100 years would disappear the water courses then glaciarsWhen could migrate around 12 million people? Yet already by lower yields and better looking living conditions have moved in 30 years nearly a million people basically to live in overcrowdedcity of La Paz.Now upper land haas beeb abandoned the once traditional fertil products source.Los basically dried legumes and grasses or are attacked by pests and diseases.Into Indigenous peoples religion are in the middle like a goddess Pachamama, Mother Earth, who feeds and protect them.Integrate in the constitution was the least I could made.Others countries who profess other faiths as Ocidental are anthropocentric and consider the land as something external to man and his servicio.Tanto that this happens to be either through strategies which can be anything that contains up exhausted and matarla.Esta vision has us trapped in the crisis climaticas.La paradox is that the industrialized countries a scientific critical mass recognizing that biological laws require to preserve and respect their cycles.Pero besides them are a group of political power and money is a dangerous utopic erroneus social life philosophya.Are the same who arrive with conquerour mit that theirs is the same for 400 years eg Bolivia came alone to look for gold and silver.destroying forests, polluting rivers and destroying the peasant economy and its traditional products.

Now everyone is in a dead end because according to them the unrestricted respect laws of nature can no longer would produce chaos in theworld economy .ia industry .Stopped in the world, would produce social disturb.Pero social distubs which is the opposite as pose as leaders of a small country like Bolivia? A social explosion as North ofAfrica recenly was the same.En will occur 50 years when the effects of global change depleted water sources will be acelerated.The industry is going to have to convert due to lack of oil.En if the alley has only one exit Reconversion in a kind different economy based on real human needss.No about stopping human progress but social energies to devote energy to create from natural sources or other matters arising from the investigation of the elementaryparticules.A universal basic rights of feeding, housing and health education to the poorest 3 billion now absents .This now must be the be the main engine of a new economy.A international tax on activities that contaminate A declared 50-year moratorium on the manufacture of weapons and to make the custody of the conflict by the UN removing the right to veto of power full countries .So the acts

made by Bolivia Ecuador today and before the appears or symbolic gesture but it's more than that because it goes along the lines of what science says and environmental reality.